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Every job I've booked has come with questions about my percentages — how Mexican or how white I am. I've never felt fully enough of either side.

— Monica Barbaro

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On navigating a mixed identity in Hollywood.

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I have always been super aware of how short our lives are and how it's so important to make the most of the time we have on Earth. Time flies by, and for me, it's about energetically and emotionally giving time to what's important. Sometimes I think, when I'm 85 will this matter?

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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

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Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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